People
People at University of Washington
18 people in the USASI People directory whose sourced profiles document a current or earlier role at University of Washington; 13 of them in a current role. Current roles are listed first, then alphabetically. Each profile covers public professional work only. This is not a ranking.
Ali Farhadi
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; co-director of the RAIVN Lab
University of Washington professor co-directing the RAIVN Lab; former Ai2 CEO who advised on OLMo
Aylin Caliskan
Associate Professor, The Information School; Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (courtesy)
University of Washington associate professor studying bias, safety, and societal impacts of AI
Byron Boots
Professor; Amazon Professor of Machine Learning; director of the UW Robot Learning Laboratory
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Washington; co-founder and CEO of Overland AI
Dieter Fox
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; head of the RSE-Lab
UW Allen School professor who leads Ai2's Robotics team; started NVIDIA's robotics research lab in 2017
Emily M. Bender
Thomas L. and Margo G. Wyckoff Endowed Professor, Department of Linguistics; Director, Computational Linguistics Laboratory
University of Washington linguistics professor; developer of the LinGO Grammar Matrix and data statements
Hannaneh Hajishirzi
Torode Family Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering; leads the H2Lab
Torode Family Professor at the University of Washington; co-led Ai2's OLMo and Tülu open models
Jianfeng Gao
Adjunct Professor
Microsoft Technical Fellow and CVP setting direction for AI models; co-founder of MSR's Deep Learning Group
Kristina Toutanova
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Research scientist at Google DeepMind and University of Washington affiliate faculty; co-author of BERT
Luke Zettlemoyer
Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington professor and Senior Research Director at Meta; co-author of RoBERTa and QLoRA
Noah A. Smith
Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence; Charles and Lisa Simonyi Endowed Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies; Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
UW Vice Provost for AI and professor; Senior Director of NLP Research at Ai2, directing OLMo
Oren Etzioni
Professor Emeritus
Founding CEO of Ai2 (2013–2022) and Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington
Xiaodong He
Affiliate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
Senior Vice President of JD Group; former head of Microsoft Research's Deep Learning Technology Center
Yulia Tsvetkov
Associate Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington associate professor working on reliable, socially aware, and multilingual NLP
Carlos Guestrin
Amazon Professor of Machine Learning, Computer Science & Engineering (earlier role)
Stanford computer science professor; co-author of XGBoost and LIME and co-founder of Turi
Emanuel Todorov
Associate/Affiliate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science & Engineering (earlier role)
Roboti LLC researcher whose lab built the MuJoCo physics engine; former UW and UC San Diego professor
Sameer Singh
Postdoctoral Researcher (2013–2016) (earlier role)
UC Irvine professor of computer science; co-author of LIME and CheckList; former Ai2 Allen Fellow
Tianqi Chen
Ph.D. student advised by Carlos Guestrin (2013–2019) (earlier role)
Started MLC LLM, a compiler-based engine for running language models on GPUs, phones, and browsers
Yejin Choi
Professor (earlier role)
Stanford professor and HAI Senior Fellow; formerly at NVIDIA, the University of Washington, and Ai2
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